"There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths."
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"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
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"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water."
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"The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free."
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
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"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."
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"Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin."
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"Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?"
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"Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare."
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"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."
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"Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good."
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"Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner."
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"Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both."
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"There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head."
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"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."
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"People will always show their true selves in the end."
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"Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth."
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"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."
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"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"
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"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
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